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JEFFREY BROWN:And we turn to a major development in a story that grabbed the nation's attention for months in 2010, as oil giant BP reached a settlement today in one part of its ongoing dispute with the federal government over the GulfCoast spill. It
MARGARET WARNER:We turn to a new cyber campaign against American banking giants and growing worries about what they might foreshadow. It began late last month and continues to this day. Two more U.S. banks are the latest targets in the spate of cyber
RAY SUAREZ:Finally tonight: new worries over the mobile apps kids are using, and what the apps disclose about their users. It seems like everyone has them, the ubiquitous applications, apps, for short, on smartphones and tablets, including everything
GWEN IFILL:Now, an exhaustive new report reveals nearly 200 educators cheated to boost student test scores in Atlanta, a problem that has surfaced in school districts across the country. The Georgia investigation commissioned by Gov. Nathan Deal foun
JEFFREY BROWN:And, finally tonight, we turn to Poland, where there's a familiar controversy surrounding new energy exploration. Our story is part of a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and comes from special correspondent St
GWEN IFILL:President Obama convened the first Cabinet meeting of his second term today, even as he continued to fill seats left open at that table. Sylvia Burwell, the president of the Wal-Mart Foundation, was nominated to head the Office of Manageme
JUDY WOODRUFF:Finally tonight, what's behind the long struggle to reach a new international agreement on reducing greenhouse gases? Margaret Warner has our update. MARGARET WARNER:It's been nearly 15 years since leaders from 37 industrialized countri
GWEN IFILL:The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new rules today to curb mercury emissions from the nation's power plants. The standards apply to roughly 600 coal- or oil-fueled power facilities. They will have to either reduce their emissions
JEFFREY BROWN:And now a resignation brings an assessment of President Obama's environmental policies in his first term and a look ahead to his second. LISA JACKSON,Environmental Protection Agency: I'm very proud to be a part of his administration. JE
HARI SREENIVASAN:The death toll soared today in the monsoon flooding that's ravaged Northern India. The chief minister of Uttarakhand state reportedlyreported nearly 600 people have been killed in the mountainous region. More than 30,000 others have
HARI SREENIVASAN: Now a story about trash. As the nation produces more and more, one city is trying to eliminate all of it. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports. SPENCER MICHELS: Each year, Americans throw away about 250 million tons of gar
GWEN IFILL: Now NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien begins a two-part look at America's drinking water, and the regulatory system that is supposed to guarantee its safety. His report is the result of a partnership with the Center for Public
JEFFREY BROWN:2012 ended with another month of steady, but unspectacular job growth. That was the main takeaway from today's numbers out of the Labor Department. The weeks of will they or won't they go over the fiscal cliff in Washington had raised f
RAY SUAREZ:Overall, it was the best jobs report since 2009. To help us look at developments big and small behind the numbers, we turn to Diane Swonk, senior managing director and chief economist for Mesirow Financial, a diversified financial services
GWEN IFILL:Since the earliest days of the Web, buying goods online has often come with one often-not-quite-legal perk: no sales tax. But that may be about to change. The Senate has cleared the way for a new law that would allow states to collect taxe
JEFFREY BROWN:And next to the Bangladesh building disaster. It's now the worst ever for the country's booming clothing industry, with more than 300 killed. Ray Suarez has the story. RAY SUAREZ:Wailing relatives tried to console one another as the dea
MARGARET WARNER:For more, we turn to Liz Alderman of The New York Times in Nicosia, Cyprus. And, Liz, thank you for joining us. Tell us more about these depositors who are going to take the hit for this, who are going to finance this, essentially. Ho
JEFFREY BROWN:And now a two-part look at issues affecting gays and lesbians, ahead of much-anticipated Supreme Court decisions coming soon on major cases involving same-sex marriage. Ray Suarez begins our coverage. RAY SUAREZ:A new survey provides on
GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight: the disturbing story of attacks on the chief of the Bolshoi Ballet. Moscow police said today they arrested a Russian ballet star for organizing an acid attack on artistic director Sergei Filin in January. Filin, who was on
JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, this was Oscar nomination day. The civil war-era drama Lincoln led the pack with 12 nominations, followed by the fantasy Life of Pi with 11, and Les Miserables with eight. Another new film, Zero Dark Thirty, lookin